Emily Chang

Chang graduated magna cum laude from Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry. She began her career as a news producer at NBCNBCNBC (National Broadcasting Company) is an American national commercial broadcast television network. It was founded by RCA in 1926, began as a radio network and later developed television. With ABC and CBS it is one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks; it passed to General Electric with RCA in 1986, merged with Universal to form NBCUniversal in 2004, has been controlled by Comcast since 2011, and is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry in New York, then worked as a reporter at KNSD, NBC’s affiliate in San Diego, where she also filed reports for MSNBCMS NOWMS NOW (My Source for News, Opinion and the World) is an American cable channel for political news and commentary. It was formerly MSNBC, launched in July 1996 as a joint venture of NBC and Microsoft, adopted its current name on November 15, 2025, as its business was spun off from Comcast, and since January 2026 has belonged to the independent public company Versant Media Group. It is known for its liberal-leaning commentary programs.Open the full entry and won five regional Emmy Awards.⁠[1][2]

Before joining Bloomberg, Chang was an international correspondent for CNNCNNCNN (Cable News Network) is an Atlanta-based news organization founded by Ted Turner on June 1, 1980, as the world’s first 24-hour television news channel. It has been owned in turn by Turner Broadcasting System, Time Warner, AT&T and Warner Bros. Discovery, became part of Skydance Corporation along with Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2026, and is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry in Beijing, covering stories including the 2008 Olympics, Barack Obama’s first visit to Asia as president and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions; she also covered international news from London for CNN’s American Morning.⁠[1]

Chang joined Bloomberg in 2010 and for more than a decade anchored Bloomberg Technology, the network’s flagship daily program on innovation and the global tech industry. As of 2018 she was anchor and executive producer of Bloomberg Technology and of the interview program Bloomberg Studio 1.0.⁠[1][2]

Her interviewees have included Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff BezosJeff BezosJeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Amazon in 1994, led it as chief executive for many years, and became its executive chair in 2021. He also founded the spaceflight company Blue Origin, bought The Washington Post in 2013, and set up philanthropic funds including the Bezos Earth Fund.Open the full entry, Sam AltmanSam AltmanSam Altman is an entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenAI. He previously served as president of Y Combinator and founded the location-based social service Loopt. He also helped found Tools for Humanity and Merge Labs, has invested in energy and life sciences ventures, and has driven public discussion of AI governance, employment, and wealth distribution.Open the full entry, Reese Witherspoon and Stephen Curry, and she has appeared as herself in multiple episodes of HBO’s series Silicon Valley.⁠[1]

On February 6, 2018, Portfolio published Chang’s book Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, a 288-page hardcover, followed by a paperback in March 2019. The book examines gender inequality in Silicon Valley’s technology industry, discusses venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, and includes interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Wojcicki and Marissa MayerMarissa MayerMarissa Mayer is an American technology executive and entrepreneur who was a Google product executive and chief executive of Yahoo before founding consumer artificial intelligence company Dazzle AI. She led Yahoo from 2012 to 2017 and later co-founded Sunshine, working on products involving photos and personal assistants.Open the full entry, among others.⁠[2]

The book became a bestseller.⁠[1][2]

On February 1, 2023, Bloomberg Media launched Bloomberg Originals, a brand for original streaming video programming, and announced a new series hosted by Chang in which she would travel each week to interview founders, influencers and innovators at the intersection of tech, business, entertainment and culture. The series became The Circuit with Emily Chang, which she hosts and executive produces.⁠[3][1]

On November 11, 2024, Bloomberg Originals aired the first episode of Posthuman, a four-part documentary series produced and hosted by Chang that explores what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence and extraordinary technological change; the first episode focused on robotics and featured roboticist Hod Lipson.⁠[4][1]

On May 19, 2025, Bloomberg Media announced a third season of the Emmy-nominated The Circuit; the premiere, available from May 20, offered a look inside the “Stargate” AI infrastructure project for OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and product organization founded in 2015 that develops the GPT model series, ChatGPT, Codex and a developer API, and conducts research on image, speech, video and intelligent agents. After its 2025 restructuring, the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit OpenAI Group PBC. Its growth has involved large-scale fundraising and compute partnerships, and has also been accompanied by controversies over governance, copyright, privacy and AI safety.Open the full entry, with interviews with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBankSoftBank GroupSoftBank Group (SoftBank Group Corp.) is an investment holding company headquartered in Tokyo, founded by Masayoshi Son in 1981. Starting out as a distributor of personal computer software, it moved into the internet, broadband and mobile communications, and has since become an investment group centered on AI-related assets such as Arm, the SoftBank Vision Funds and OpenAI.Open the full entry CEO Masayoshi SonMasayoshi SonMasayoshi Son (born 1957) is a Japanese entrepreneur and investor who founded SoftBank Group in 1981 and has served as its chairman and CEO ever since. He is known for early investments in Yahoo and Alibaba, the acquisitions of Sprint and Arm, the nearly $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, and in recent years his bets on OpenAI and AI infrastructure.Open the full entry and Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller.⁠[5]

On June 3, 2026, the fifth season of The Circuit became available; in the premiere Chang traveled to Palo Alto, California, to interview Anne Wojcicki, CEO and founder of the 23andMe23andMe23andMe is a consumer genetics and research brand offering ancestry and health-risk services. It is now operated by 23andMe Research Institute, a nonprofit based in Palo Alto, California.Open the full entry Research Institute, and the season’s guests also included Anthropic CEO Dario AmodeiDario AmodeiDario Amodei is an artificial intelligence researcher and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic. Trained in physics and biophysics, he conducted research at Baidu, Google Brain, and OpenAI, where he led research including work on GPT-2 and GPT-3. His career spans large-model development, AI safety, interpretability, and public policy.Open the full entry, President Daniela AmodeiDaniela AmodeiDaniela Amodei is an American executive who co-founded the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, where she serves as president and chairs the board. After early work in international development and politics, she held roles at Stripe and OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic in 2021 with her brother Dario Amodei and others.Open the full entry and Claude Code creator Boris ChernyBoris ChernyBoris Cherny is a software engineer at Anthropic who created and leads the coding agent tool Claude Code. Before Anthropic he worked at Meta, where he was tech lead for Facebook Groups and later worked on Instagram, and he is the author of the TypeScript book Programming TypeScript.Open the full entry.⁠[6]

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